1. Exclude explicit software bugginess or missing features
  2. Include experiences or knock-on effects that may have arisen from (1)
  3. Comparisons to Reddit are ok. We know the reasons for the differences, but this is just about expressing yourself
  • @Rayleigh@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Its just super unattractive to join. If I am thinking about joining a platform I want to know if there is content that is interesting to me. Now if I go to https://join-lemmy.org/ what do I see? It greets me with explanations of the Licensing, tells me all the programming languages and frameworks, shows me pictures of code and something about mod tools and of course immediately offers me to run my own server. None of that is even remotely interesting to me even now that I am a registered user. Not to mention that the design is questionable. Then it says “Join a server”. I am not here to join a server, I am here to join a platform. And if I click on that I am met with about 50 different instances, of which I have no idea what to choose and what implications my choice has.

    The whole federation thing, the design, everything is just unintuitive and unattractive to join.

    • Aviandelight
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      271 year ago

      I agree that it is unclear to folks that Lemmy is not a platform and this causes frustration and disappointment for new users. It probably should be clearer on join-lemmy.org that this whole thing is just a bunch of servers talking to each other.

    • @Cubes@lemm.ee
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      211 year ago

      join-lemmy.org needs some serious work if it’s really what people are going to link when others ask about it; it’s really no wonder that we’ve mostly only amassed technical folks. I also think the default UI/UX could use a lot of work to bring it up to standards with other modern social sites. I wish that would be a priority for the devs, but I know they only have so much time to devote to things

      • @teichflamme@lemm.ee
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        121 year ago

        Which is why no one is running their own email server and people go to the platform that is easiest and most well known.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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        1 year ago

        No. I don’t want explanations. I just want to see it in action and use the fucking thing a bit myself. It was easier to figure out what Lemmy was and sign up by going directly to an instance than with the join-lemmy page. The page specifically designed to get people checking out the platform is terrible at its one and only job.